Closing-cap for vessels.



No. 665,334. Patented Ian. I, l90l.

A. A. LOW. I

CLOSING GAFFOR YESS ELS.

(Application filed Apr. 16, 1906.

(No Model.)

INVENTOR WITNESSES ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOSlNG-CAP FO R VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 665,334, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed April 16, 1900- $erial No. 13,000- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The top of shell M is Wholly or partially 50 Be it known that I, ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, closed, according to the character of the maa citizen of the United States, and a resident terials contained in the vessel. I have shown of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of in the figures perforations R in the top W Kings and State of New York, have invented similar to those used in pepper and salt disa certain new and useful Closing-Cap for Vestributers. The inside lining or shell serves 55 sels, of which the following is a specification. to shield the exterior cap from the injurious Myinvention relates to closing-caps for veseffects or action of the contents of the vessel sels which are provided with a barrel, interand also to control the packing both at the nally-disposed flange and dome rising above top and bottom joints, as it wholly controls the top of said barrel from the inner edge of the function of sealing the vessel. 60 the flange and above "the dome, a discharge The sealing is secured by screwing the uptube or spout provided with a cap to close it, per cap K on tube J and by screwing the barand to an internal shell conforming generally rel 0 down upon the walls of the neck B, thus to the shape of the exterior cap and provided forcing the packing in flange O at the base of with means for securing the whole upon a vesinternal shell M upon said walls by means of 65 seland for removing the same when the vessel the flange H and also by means of the presis to be discharged; and it consists in certain sure exerted upon the top of shelllVI by means elements and combinations fully set forth in of cap K as the cap K bears upon the top of the specification and claimed at the end said shell, thus forcing it downward and at thereof. the same time making a tight joint at that 70 In order that persons skilled in the art to place. which my invention appertains may under- Having now fully described my invention stand, construct, and use my invention, I will and the manner in which I have embodied it,

proceed to describe it, referring to the drawwhat I claim as new and as of my invention,

ings, in whichand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 75 Figure 1 is a vertical central section. Fig. 1. In a closing-cap for vessels, the combi- 2 is a top view with the cap removed to show nation consisting of the barrel as C, flange as perforations in the top of the internal shell. H, dome or chamber as I, discharge-tube as 0 A is the vessel-mouth, B the walls of same, J, closing-cap as K, and means for securing and C the barrel of the exterior cap, furnished to and removing same from the vessel, inter- So with a screw-thread to match the thread upon nal shell as M, provided at its base with flange the vessel-neck. as O, and rim as P, adapted to inclose pack- His an. internally-disposed flange above the ing as Q between flange O and the top of the barrel 0. 5 Walls of the vessel, and at its top provided I is a dome or chamber rising from the inwith perforations B on its upper surface at 8 5 uer edge of the flange H. \V, and constructed to engage with packing Jisatube rising from the crown of the dome in cap K, all constructed, arranged and com- I for discharging the vessel. bined when applied to the mouth of a vessel,

K is a closing-cap for the tube J. to seal the same hermetically and when clos- D is a packing in closing-cap K. ing-cap is removed to discharge the contents M is a shell located Within the exterior cap through the perforations R, substantially as and of similar shape in part. specified.

O is a flange located at the base of shell M 2. In a closing-cap for vessels, the combi- 5 and turned outward to pass under the internation consisting of the exterior cap, means nally-disposed flange H on the exterior cap. for securing to and removing same from the This flange O is provided with downwardlyvessel, and provided with centrally-disposed directed rims P and embraces a packingflange, chamber and discharge-spout above piece Q. the barrel of same, and means for opening and closing it in use, an internal shell carrying York and State of New York, this 3d day of packing at its base over the Walls of the ves- April, A. D. 1900.

sel and under the centrally-disposed flan e on the exterior cap and permanently clos d at ABBOT AUGUSTUS 5 its top, all constructed, arranged and com- Witnesses:

bined to operate snbstantiallyas specified; GEO. E. OONDIT,

Signed at New York, in the county of New JAMES W. EATON. 

